Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Android on top. Windows on the bottom: Lenovo’s new laptop does it all!”.
Right here I have the Lenovo thinkbook plus Gen 5. It looks like your standard Windows laptop, but when you take the display off, it becomes an Android tablet. So if you’re, just looking at this, it looks like your generic 14in Windows laptop, it’s a little bit thicker and a little bit heavier than you might expect from a laptop this size. But that’s because it’s essentially too machines inside the keyboard or the hybrid dock station.
You’Ve got a full Windows Experience and then up here you have your Android tablet, so they’re, basically two separate machines which adds a lot to the weight. It does give you a lot of Versatility with having two separate machines to do whatever you want. Maybe your personal on your Android tablet side and then your business on your Windows, PC side. Of course, the fact that they’re two separate machines does create a slight problem. The fact that you have a a wholly separate operating system up here and then down here does cause some trade-offs.
For example, when you take the tablet off you’re not going to get continuity, what you were doing on your Windows laptop is not going to immediately transfer over to the Android side, but you do get file sharing. So if you save a file on your Windows machine and then you can access that on your Android machine, so that adds some convenience to it when you want to be doing some sort of hybrid work environment. Another benefit, though, of the hybrid design, is that on the bolt port on the side you could plug in a USBC Monitor. And then, when you take the tablet out, the Windows machine would still be operating just as expected.
So that could allow you to be in the middle of a meeting, for example, on the window side. Take this off and start writing notes on the Android side as far as an Android tablet, it’s obviously pretty big at 14 in, but it’s pretty light in the hand I feel like it would be. Okay, holding this, for you know an hour or so without getting too much wrist strain. You’Ve got your full selection of buttons.
You have a power button button on the side, and then you have your volume buttons over here uh. You have no problem going back and forth between portrait and uh lscape mode, and then you have all the Android features that you would expect, including the Google Play, store, all your favorite apps and all your favorite streaming services and then on the back. You have a dual camera system, which is pretty unique for a laptop. You have a 13 megap primary lens paired with a 5 megap Ultra wide, so that should allow you to get some versatility with your photography.
Of course, we’re not really sure why you’d be doing a lot of Photography with your laptop, but people do use tablets for photography all the time and because this is Lenovo and it takes privacy very seriously at the top. You have a camera shutter button, so you can turn off your webcam with a Hardware switch and that works for both the window side and the Android side. If you’re concerned about performance inside the windows, part of the machine, you have yourself an Intel Core, processor, pretty powerful and then up here you have a slightly older uh, Qualcomm processor for Android. It’S the Qualcomm snap s, dragon 8 plus gen 1, which is approaching 2 years old. However, that is a flagship processor that is certainly plenty powerful for most of your Android experiences. Lenovo is going to make this available in the second quarter of 2024 and it’s going to start at $ 19.99. So that’s pretty expensive but remember you’re, getting two machines here: a 14-in Android tablet and a powerful Windows laptop allinone, which could be a good solution for people who are looking for two separate devices and want to save some money and some space in their backpack. .